Laura Vegas

last weekend heather ruwe emailed me … asking if i wanted to do a creative challenge just for fun. she had seen the fun challenge that robyn and nichol did the previous week … and loved the idea. i was totally up for it. sometimes it’s just nice to play. and when you narrow down your choices to just what the challenge calls for … things are easier somehow.

so we decided on a few quidelines. first off, we were going to do a layout about ourselves … something about our daily routine. next up, color choices … the main colors we decided on were red, pink, and green. also decided to both use the stitched circle stamp from hero arts (thanks sara for the link!). and lastly … we were both to use bubble wrap! fun, right!

here is heather’s layout:

i love heather’s layout … and the fun take on what she "needs" on a daily basis. love how she used the heidi swapp daily stickers to frame her journaling. love the way she used the bubble wrap painted strip down the side and accented it with buttons and brads. and love that she used the stitched circle stamp to hold her title letters.

and here is my layout:

i did my layout on my daily routine … on a typical day. there are exceptions of course … but this is pretty typical. for the record, the striped kraft paper doesn’t look quite so crazy in real life. i think the way it photographed made it look a little more bold than it really is … it’s really more subtle stripes. i cut a huge chunk of bubble wrap and brushed red paint all over it … and then smushed it down on my white cardstock. i’ve actually done this a few years ago for a card class i taught … really an easy way to add some texture to your page. although don’t let you kids pop all the bubbles before you do it … i had to re-do this because there were too many popped bubbles. lol!

i stamped the stitched circle stamp on the striped kraft pattern paper and then cut them out. then i just typed up my times of the day that i wanted and adhered them to each circle … and then handwrote what i’m doing at that time of the day. and yes, i should really make a little more time for sleep. lol! i very rarely go to bed before 12:30am … and i have to be dragged out of bed at 7:00am when the daycare kids start coming.

this was such a fun challenge. and i thought it was kind of neat when i saw heather’s layout tonight. we did pick out the colors ahead of time … but there really are a lot of shades and varieties of any given color. so i thought it was funny that we have the same shades of green, pink, and red. and we both went for the KI memories "color theory" green pattern paper. and we both used kraft cardstock. and we both used red paint on the bubble wrap … on white cardstock. little things … and yet so cool that our minds were working in such similar ways without even knowing it! lol!

thanks so much heather for asking me to play along!!! and if anyone else wants to play … make sure and share it with us!

supplies:
cardstock – bazzill
pattern paper – making memories (kraft); ki memories (pink and green)
chipboard – lil davis
stamp – hero arts
buttons – buttons galore